As it is written in the Prophets: “Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.”

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

Others said, “It is Elijah.” And others said, “It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets.”

He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.

So they answered, “John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”

But if we say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all counted John to have been a prophet indeed.

The Great Tribulation

“So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

For false christs and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Then some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him, and to say to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers struck Him with the palms of their hands.